Course Info
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Course Category
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Psychology
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Course Level
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Undergraduate
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-requisites
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PSY101, PSY405
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Instructor
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Dr. Asir Ajmal
Ph.D. in Psychology
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, USA.
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Course Contents
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The information processing approach, cognitive neuro psychology, information processing in visual cells, visual sensory memory experiments, attention, capacity models, multimodel theory, automaticity, pattern recognition, factor analysis, voice-onset time, gestalt theory of perception, object perception, attention & pattern recognition, neural networks, effects of sentence context, short term working memory, working memory: an activation model, chunking the nature of forgetting, Atkinson & Shiffrin model, long term memory, interference, recall versus recognition, long term memory (forgotten memories), representation of knowledge, levels of categories, schema theory, psychological reality of scripts, applications for studying, study methods, mental imagery, eidetic imagery, language and thought and cognitive development.
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